Gym Defrag

Everyone knows what disk defragmentation is, right? It's the process of optimizing how information is written on a disk drive (disc drive? Why do we have words the spelling of which is in such a gray (grey) zone)?) to allow it to be read more quickly.

Sometimes we need life defragmentation, right? Here's an example.

When I was funemployed (which happens to be a word recently included in the New Oxford American dictionary...) I would go to the gym to sort of punish myself. I couldn't sit around looking for jobs ALL day (you can see what I tended to do here, although I did end up hitting the gym more often towards the end) so I went to the gym and got the most out of the membership I'd pre-paid for three years' worth.

Needless to say, when one is working one (at least this one) really doesn't have extra energy for the gym after one works. And (this) one no longer can punish oneself for being funemployed, either.

And yet, I have to go to the gym or stop eating... or chub up. So I try to go to the gym occasionally.

I always have a small thrill of turning left (towards the gym) rather than right (towards my apartment), and I tell myself it's only about an hour. And it's good for me not to be obese.

The thing is that (unfortunately for me) other people have the same idea, and the gym near my place is small and crowded when I tend to go after work. So my ideal pattern for my gym time is not quite met.

Ideally, it would be:

1. Wait a short time for a changing room
2. Do some stretching
3. Lift some weights
4. Do some cardio
5. Lift some more weights
6. Stretch

Unfortunately, it doesn't work out that way. I'll represent something approximating reality here:

I wait way longer than expected for a changing room. Then I stretch much more because I am antsy to just DO something. Then I wait for a machine. Lift, wait (or, rather, lift weights, wait). Etc. Even in those cases when I stay as long as I plan on, I get less done.

This is where defragmentation comes in. I want to take ALL of the waiting time and push it to the end. I could do the waiting on the drive back to my place.

I'm not sure exactly how to make this happen, though. I'm open to suggestions...